US Congress Senate Bill 1124 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on May 15 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-05-15 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Patrick T. Carothers U.S. Marshals Service Hiring Improvement Act of 2017 This bill allows the Director of the U.S. Marshals Service to appoint a qualified candidate to the position of deputy marshal or criminal investigator in accordance with the statutes, rules, or regulations governing excepted service appointments notwithstanding any statutes, rules, or regulations governing appointments in the competitive service. The appointment of a deputy marshal or criminal investigator under this authority shall not be considered to cause the position to be converted from the competitive service to the excepted service. Service by an incumbent as deputy marshal or criminal investigator may not exceed four years. The Director may, upon satisfactory completion of three years of substantially continuous service by a qualified incumbent, convert the appointment of the individual, without competition, to a career or career-conditional appointment.

Patrick T. Carothers U.S. Marshals Service Hiring Improvement Act of 2017

Sen. Orrin Hatch [R-UT]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]	Sen. John Cornyn [R-TX]	Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]
Sen. John Boozman [R-AR]	Sen. Thad Cochran [R-MS]	Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-05-15	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1124/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s1124/BILLS-115s1124is.pdf